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Subcommittee Vaccination of Employees

In 2014, the Health Council of the Netherlands published the advisory report Employees and infectious diseases - Criteria for vaccination. In this report the Health Council has drawn up two separate decision frameworks: the first to determine whether employee vaccination should be considered with the aim of protecting employees themselves (at-risk employees), the second to determine whether employee vaccination should be considered with the aim of protecting vulnerable third parties (employees as sources of risk). In 2015, the Health Council used these frameworks in an advisory report on vaccination against Q fever.

Following the reports of the permanent Committee on Vaccinations, the Health Council will publish reports on vaccination of employees. On the 4th of October 2016 Hans Severens, vice president of the Health Council, therefore installed the Subcommittee Vaccination of employees.

The first topic the subcommittee will deal with is vaccination of employees against pertussis (whooping cough). The subcommittee hopes to publish this report in the first quarter of 2017.